Hog-ring



L. NIGG.

HOG RING.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 5, I919.

Patented Dec. 7, 1920.

f ZZ I a 2 LOUIS NIGG, 0F KEYSTONE, IOWA.

HOGRING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 7, 1920.

Application filed September 5, 1919. Serial No. 321,797.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Louis NIGG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Keystone, in the county of Benton and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hog-Rings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to produce a ring for the snouts of hogs which will effectually and permanently prevent them from rooting.

The invention is fully described in the specification following, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a view in perspective, showing the improved hog-ring as in use. Fig. 2 shows the same detached. Fig. 3 is a modification of the same.

The invention contemplates the use of two rings, suitably connected over the animals snout, and so mutually bracing each other as fastened to the snout toward the sides thereof, for a purpose which will be set forth presently. One member, A, has the usual curved extremities B and sharpened tangs C, but is provided with an eye 1), turned crosswise of the body, so as to admit another member. This is preferably as shown in Figs. 1. and 2. having an eye F which is a simple coil in the body of the member. A simple ring G, which is the type in general use, will, however, serve the purpose, as shown in Fig. 3. The double ring is attached by a sultable tool, not shown, and preferably with the joined eyes standing out a little from the tip of the animals snout, the engaging tangs being at each side, as shown in Fig. 1.

It will be evident that if the hog now attempts to root, pressure is brought to bear on the joined eyes of the rings, andthis is transmitted to the tangs, forcing them backwardly against a sensitive part of the nose, and causing more pain than the hog is willing to bear. Consequently he does not even commence to root before he is ready to quit.

Theoretically this is the purpose when the common ring G is attached, but in the case of many hardy rooters it fails in practice because the curved part of the ring may swing sidewise, when attached to the snout, and when so turned this part of the ring bears solidly against the tough, horny ridge of the snout, causing no pain in the act of rooting, and very little inconvenience. Increasing the number of rings in the snout does not prevent this action, so it is not uncommon to see swine rooting vigorously, with half a dozen rings in each nose. But with the improved ring above described the v painful pressure is always in the sensitive part of the snout back of the tangs, since the outwardly projecting parts of the ring cannot turn sidewise enough to arrest this pressure by striking the ridge of the snout.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A hog-ring composed of two barbed members, one of them having a centrally disposed, single, round eyeto receive the body of the connected member, and standing out from the tip of the animals snout.

2. A hog-ring composed of two barbed" members, the body of one of them having a single, centrally disposed, round eye, transverse to the body, and the other connecting therewith by a similar, but tran verse eye, which eyes stand out from the tip of the animals snout,

In testimony whereof I'aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS NIGG.

WVitnesses mower. C. Lnon'rnnennc, H. C. SEVERIN. 

